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09 Oct LJIL Symposium Vol 25-3: Introduction
[ Dov Jacobs is the Senior Editor for Expert Blogging at the Leiden Journal of International Law and Assistant Professor of International Law at Leiden University] This post is part of the Leiden Journal of International Law Vol 25-3 symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Over the next few days, we are happy to bring you a discussion of two articles published in Volume 25-3 of the Leiden Journal of International Law, the first one a timely self-reflection on the practices of...22 Oct Symposium on Religious Extremism and Terrorism
Tomorrow (Friday, October 23rd), the S.J. Quinney College of Law of the University of Utah will host a symposium entitled Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security. You can watch the symposium online via a link on this page. Here’s the brief description: Based on Professor Amos N. Guiora’s new book, Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security (Oxford University Press, 2009), this Symposium will explore the limits of tolerance of religious extremism in five countries and its impact on the current terrorism threat our world faces. By drawing on...22 Jan Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio Juris Symposium for Volume 53(1)
The Harvard International Law Journal is pleased to announce its third online symposium with Opinio Juris. The symposium will begin tomorrow, Monday, January 23 and will run until Thursday, January 26. It features the following line-up: On Monday, Mark Tushnet will respond to David Landau‘s article, The Reality of Social Rights Enforcement. On Tuesday, Darryl Robinson and Carsten Stahn will respond to Kevin Jon Heller’s article, A Sentence-Based Theory of Complementarity. On Wednesday, Carlos Vazquez will respond to David L. Sloss‘ article, Executing Foster v. Neilson: The Two-Step Approach to...
17 Apr ICC Prosecutor Symposium: Placing the Prosecutor within the International Criminal Justice Project
[Diane Marie Amann is Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center at the University of Georgia School of Law.] Opinio Juris and Justice in Conflict deserve much credit for the rich discussion they have generated in anticipation of December’s election of the third Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. The contributions to this joint symposium have touched upon a variety of issues. Several concerned the relationship of the Prosecutor to other powerful entities, including states parties like Kenya and...
14 Oct International Organizations Accountability Symposium: An Introduction
In 2017, Seton Hall Law School hosted a symposium on UN Accountability. Two years ago, the conversation was largely about the Haiti cholera case against the UN , and other mass torts. A video of the event, including a powerful Keynote Speech by Philip Alston is available here. After the event, Prof. Fréderic Mégret and I, and a number of other speakers, decided to further the conversation in a written volume. We were delighted that Niels Blokker and Ramses Wessel of the International Organizations Law Review invited us to publish...
02 May Beyond Territoriality: Symposium on Jurisdictional “Hooks” for (Extraterritorial) Human Rights Obligations – Reflecting on the Regulation of Global Value Chains and the Duties of States and Private Actors
significant development that will compel all EU countries to adopt a mHRDD law. Notably, France, Germany and Norway are ahead of the game, having already enacted such a law. Outside of Europe, due diligence laws are being contemplated in diverse countries such as Brazil, the United Kingdom and South Korea. Geared towards enhancing more responsible business conduct in our globalized world, due diligence laws are fundamentally reshaping the global governance of Business and Human Rights (BHR), by imposing hard, rather than soft, obligations on covered companies. Unlike earlier tools such...
21 Aug States of Justice Symposium: A Response
[Oumar Ba is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Morehouse College.] To write is a privilege. To be read, an honor. It takes unbounded generosity to critically engage with a book and offer an incisive critique in the midst of a global pandemic that has upended our lives. For that, I owe a profound debt of gratitude to my brilliant colleagues who have made this symposium a highlight of my intellectual journey. This symposium was sketched, planned, organized, and coordinated by one man: Owiso Owiso – whom, dare I...
24 May Lawmaking Under Pressure: International Humanitarian Law and Internal Armed Conflict Symposium
Over the coming week, along with Armed Groups and International Law, we are thrilled to co-host a symposium on Giovanni Mantilla’s latest book, Lawmaking under Pressure: International Humanitarian Law and Internal Armed Conflict. Scholars and practitioners who will be weighing in in addition to Giovanni include: Alonso Gurmendi, Neta Crawford, Kathryn Greenman, Alejandro Chehtman, Verity Robson, Charli Carpenter, Boyd van Dijk, Iris Mueller and Katharine Fortin. From the publisher: In Lawmaking under Pressure, Giovanni Mantilla analyzes the origins and development of the international humanitarian treaty rules that now exist to regulate internal armed conflict. Until...
30 Aug Symposium on Myanmar and International Indifference: The Slow Turning Wheels of Justice – Even for Genocide
[Dr Melanie O’Brien is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Western Australia and President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS). She is also a 2022 research fellow at the Sydney Jewish Museum .] Two years ago, in August 2020, thirteen blog posts were written in a Rohingya Symposium here on Opinio Juris. These posts covered, inter alia, the need for accountability, the Security Council, the problematic fact that Myanmar’s periodic reports to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) had not been made public, the need...